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STRANGE CATS STRANGE CATS Adam Strange is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. Created by editor Julius Schwartz with a costume designed by Murphy Anderson, he first appeared in Showcase #17 (November 1958) STRANGE CATS.
In May 2011, Adam Strange placed 97th STRANGE CATS on STRANGE CATS IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time.
In 1957, DC Comics editorial director Irwin STRANGE CATS Donenfeld held a meeting with editors Jack Schiff and Julius Schwartz in his office, asking them each to create a new science fiction hero: one from the present, and one from STRANGE CATS the future. Given first pick, Schiff chose to create one from the future STRANGE CATS STRANGE CATS (Space Ranger) STRANGE CATS. However STRANGE CATS, Schwartz STRANGE CATS was STRANGE CATS happy with the pick STRANGE CATS, feeling that readers would more readily identify with a hero from the present. STRANGE CATS He conceived the idea of an Earth man repeatedly traveling to a planet in the Alpha STRANGE CATS Centauri star system using a Zeta-beam altered by space radiation, and named STRANGE CATS his character Adam after the first man on Earth according to the Abrahamic faiths STRANGE CATS, since Adam Strange was the first Earthman on another planet.[1] STRANGE CATS STRANGE CATS STRANGE CATS
Adam Strange debuted in issues #17-19 of the tryout series Showcase, published November 1958-March 1959. The first artwork of the character was a cover for Showcase #17 by Murphy Anderson; though Schwartz rejected the drawing and commissioned a new one by Gil Kane, Anderson's costume design was retained.[1] Schwartz then assigned the scribing of the stories to Gardner Fox and the penciling to Mike Sekowsky.[2] Schwartz and Fox devised the plots for the stories in Schwartz's office, and Fox would write the scripts at home. A science major, Schwartz specialized in giving Fox scientific pointers that gave the Adam Strange tales a plausibility that made them stand out from most science fiction of the time.[1]
Sales on the three-issue Showcase tryout were enough to justify giving Adam Strange a slot in Mystery in Space, which ran in issues #53-100 and 102. Though Schwartz and Fox continued their work on the character, Schwartz gave the penciler assignment to Carmine Infantino instead of Sekowsky. Most issues were inked by Murphy Anderson (although Bernard Sachs, Joe Giella and Sid Greene did a few issues each) STRANGE CATS. In the Justice League of America comic book, the Flash mentioned Adam Strange as a possible new member for the Justice League. When a letter to the editor pointed out the group STRANGE CATS had not met Adam Strange and could not have heard of him, as all his heroics took place on Rann STRANGE CATS, Schwartz and Fox wrote a story showing how the Justice League came to Rann and how STRANGE CATS Adam Strange saved them from Kanjar Ro. The story was published in Mystery in Space STRANGE CATS #75 and won the Alley Award for the "Best Book-Length Story" of 1962. STRANGE CATS STRANGE CATS
As of #92, Jack Schiff replaced Schwartz STRANGE CATS as editor of Mystery in Space and Lee Elias became the artist for Adam Strange. Following STRANGE CATS the discontinuation of the Adam Strange stories, reprints were presented in Strange Adventures STRANGE CATS #217 through 244 (except for #222, which instead has a new story with Strange, written by Denny O'Neil, while #226 has a new Strange text story, by Fox, with illustrations by Anderson). STRANGE CATS